"I don't know why people said that [I'm making ends meet]," he said. "They said it because I'm waiting tables, which is really disgusting to think that because you wait tables ... that you're making ends meet."

Gosselin adds that he "was living the high life [years back] because everyone was paying for it" and that before taking his new job, he was a bit "nervous."

"I was like, 'How are people going to react?'" he told ET. "But then I'm thinking, 'Well it's fun and I get to talk to people and they technically already know me. They're like, 'Are you the guy?' and [I'm like] 'Yeah, I'm the guy.'"